Populares and circumcelliones. The vocabulary of “fallen man” in Cicero and St. Augustine

Author: Wood, Neal
Title: Populares and circumcelliones. The vocabulary of “fallen man” in Cicero and St. Augustine
Review/Collection: "History of political thought", VII
Year edition: 1986
Pages: 33-51
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Politique - Politica - Politics, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Augustine's attacks on the circumcelliones, bands of dispossessed Donatist peasants who were ravaging North Africa, compare closely with those of Cicero against the populares in the Pro Sestio, particularly in the use of such words as furor, audax, and perditus. Augustine's use of Cicero's political terminology may indicate that Augustine viewed the Donatists as an essentially political movement. [Da APh]
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Author initials: Wood 1986